Ironing apparatus



(No Model.)

0. P. NORRIS.

1301mm APPARATUS. No. 358,060. Patented- Feb. 22, 1887.

aliVENTOIg wmmssss: A

fi% 2 j ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLINTON F. NORRIS, OF NEWTON, KANSAS.

IRONING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,060, dated February 22, 1887.

Application filed November 1'1, 1884. Serial No. 148,082.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLINTON F. NoRRIs, of Newton, Harvey county, Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Ironing Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to construct an ironing apparatus wherein an additional downward pressure may be exerted upon the smoothing-iron during its movements upon an ironing board; and my invention consists in the means more fully described hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the apparatus; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the ironing-table, showing the convex surface of the ironing-board and the manner of pivoting the bowspring, whereby it may be adjusted for the purpose of increasing or diminishing its downward pressure upon the smoothingiron.

The platform K is provided with legs H, supporting the ironing-board B. The bowspring A is centered upon a pivot, F, by means of the eye L. This pi vot is secured to the platform K, and is provided with a' washer, E, adapted to slide up and down thereon'and to be secured to the pivot at any desired point by means of a nut, N.

The bow-spring is detachably connected to the smoothingiron O by fitting the free end a within a socket, a, in the upper surface of the iron. For obvious reasons, the upper surface of the ironing-board is made convex, and the tendency of the ends a and L to come together create a uniform pressure upon the iron at all points of the board.

(No model.)

The object and nature of my device having been set forth, its operation will now be described.

The material to be ironed having first been placed upon the board B, the iron 0, by means of the handle D, may be readily moved about the convex surface of the board to any desired point, and, as the bow-spring is centered at a point below the ironing-board and in such a.

manner that the board will intervene between its pivotal point L and free end a, a uniform pressure is exerted upon the iron in all its movements upon the board.

I do not herein broadly claim an ironing apparatus composed of an ir0uing-table combined with an iron provided with a spring for exerting pressure upon the same; but

WVhat I do claim, and desire to obtain by Letters Patent, is

1. In an ironing apparatus, an ironing-board provided with a support and base for the same, in combination with a bow-spring pivoted below said ironingboard, and having an iron detachably connected to the free end thereof, substantially as described.

2. In an ironing apparatus, an ironing-board provided with an upper convex surface, in combination with a bow spring pivoted beneath said table, and having detachably connected to its free end an iron adapted to be manipulated thereon, in the manner substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. I

CLINTON F. NORRIS. Witnesses:

HENRY D. AsHLEY, O'r'ro BEOKENBAOH. 

